The Birthday Party
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The Birthday Party by Stanley N Alpert
On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of gun-toting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of gangsta philosophy, sought his legal advice, and even offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a birthday present. As Alpert talked with them, played on their attitudes and fears, and memorized every detail he could, his law-enforcement colleagues launched a major police and FBI investigation that would take many strange twists and turns. Filled with immediacy, drama, and extraordinary characters, The Birthday Party reads like a thriller--but every word is true.
Stanley N. Alpert served for thirteen years with the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he was chief of environmental litigation. There, Alpert investigated, prosecuted, or supervised many complex civil and criminal cases, some resulting in multimillion-dollar awards.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780425219119 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425219119 |
| Title | The Birthday Party |
| Author | Stanley N Alpert |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2008-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Edgar Award. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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